Tag: webos
webOS resurrected as an Android app
webOS, Palm's ill-fated operating system behind the equally ill-fated HP TouchPad, may soon get a new lease of life as an Android app. A company called Phoenix International Communications has been working on getting Open webOS running on Android hardware,…
HP give Open source webOS September launch date
HP have set a September launch date for the open source version of their failed OS, webOS. Open webOS was announced back in September, after a few precarious months that saw the future of the OS put in doubt when…
HP now looking to sell, not kill, webOS
HP are set to sell off the webOS platform on the advice of their financial team. Expected to fetch "hundreds of millions of dollars" according to Reuters, analysts believe HP will struggle to claw back the $1.2bn dollars they…
Is a Kindle Phone the reason Amazon may buy webOS?
It's turning into quite a busy week for Amazon. Not content with just launching a slew of new Kindle eReaders and their first tablet device in the shape of the Kindle Fire Android-based slate, they're now rumoured to be in…
HP's laptop and desktop PCs division gets the chop
They're dropping like flies! First we reveal that HP are to ditch support for the webOS mobile platform they'd acquired little more than a year ago, and now in a total shock move the company are also looking to sell…
HP kills off webOS
Well that was short lived. Just over six weeks since the launch of the TouchPad tablet and, in the UK at least, just one day after the launch of the Pre 3, HP have announced that they will no…
VIDEO: Russell Brand is the face of HP's TouchPad in new adverts
So, you've spent millions of dollars developing a tablet device whose target audience will predominantly be business and enterprise users. You're just a matter of weeks away from its launch and it's time to turn the marketing machine into…
VIDEO PREVIEW: HP TouchPad
HP are almost ready to unleash their webOS-based TouchPad tablet on the world, and we had one final preview session with the tablet before getting on down to business for a full review. We met with HP senior product…
HP Pre 3 price and release date revealed
HP's long-awaited reboot of the webOS based smartphone platform will touch down on July 8th with the launch of the HP Pre3. That's according to Play.com, who have launched a pre-order page for the handset that you can visit…
OFFICIAL: HP TouchPad tablet pricing and release date revealed
Remember earlier today when we showed you the Amazon listing for the HP TouchPad, revealing its launch date as July 17th? Seems like that was pretty much bang on, as HP have just revealed a "mid-July" launch for the…